AMD Catalyst 12.3 Adds Full Support for Radeon HD 7000 Series

AMD has made available a new version of its Catalyst driver suite that now fully supports the Radeon HD 7900, 7800, and 7700 series of graphics cards. Outside of boosting support for the latest graphics cards, Catalyst 12.3 is a fairly light update with no mention of any performance improvements, though it does fix a handful of issues some gamers have been experiencing in Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

One of the main resolved issues is that of flicker and texture corruption in Skyrim. AMD claims to have a handle on the situation, at least as far as Windows 7 is concerned.

After installing Catalyst 12.3, you'll also be able to play Alan Wake in DirectX 9 mode with CrossFire enabled and not have it crash, as it is apparently prone to doing with previous driver releases.

For a full list of fixes, you can view the release notes here. Driver downloads are available here.

Wow! Only 3 months after the release of their new cards and we already have drivers for them! OMG! And after only a few short months since Skyrim's release, we can already play it with Crossfire actually enabled! Whew, I'm getting dizzy here... Have us gamers ever been so well supported before? No way. AMD has set a new bar for timely and effective driver support! Eat that, Nvidia!

I intend on getting dual 7870s when the price comes down a bit. However, I've never done xfire before and I'm wondering if Catalyst 12.3 fixed the xfire issues I've been hearing or do you need some other drivers for xfire support?